Skeleton vs. Ghost

Skeletonnoun

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Ghostnoun

(dated) The spirit; the soul of man.

Skeletonnoun

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

‘She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.’;

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death

‘Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.’;

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) A very thin person.

‘She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.’;

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image

‘not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea’;

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

‘The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.’;

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Skeletonnoun

(architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

Ghostnoun

An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.

Skeletonnoun

(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

‘In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.’;

Ghostnoun

A ghostwriter.

Skeletonnoun

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

Ghostnoun

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

Skeletonnoun

A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).

Ghostnoun

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize

Ghostnoun

(theatre) An understudy.

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to minimize

Ghostnoun

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

Skeletonnoun

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

Ghostnoun

The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

Skeletonnoun

A very thin or lean person.

‘The great skeleton of the world.’;

Ghostnoun

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

Skeletonnoun

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Ghostnoun

A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.

Skeletonadjective

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Ghostnoun

White or pale.

‘ghost slug; ghostberry; ghostflower; ghost crab; ghost bat’;

Skeletonnoun

something reduced to its minimal form;

‘the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self’; ‘the bare skeleton of a novel’;

Ghostnoun

Transparent or translucent.

‘ghost ant; ghost catfish; ghost nipper; ghost nudibranch’;

Skeletonnoun

a scandal that is kept secret;

‘there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet’;

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Abandoned.

‘ghost town; ghost net; ghost ramp; ghost ship’;

Skeletonnoun

the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

Ghostnoun

(attributive) The remains of.

‘ghost cell; ghost crater; ghost image’;

Skeletonnoun

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;

‘the building has a steel skeleton’;

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

‘ghost pain; ghost cellphone vibration; ghost island; ghost voter’;

Skeleton

A skeleton is a structural frame that supports an animal body. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hydroskeleton, a flexible skeleton supported by fluid pressure, and the cytoskeleton present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including bacteria, and archaea.

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

‘ghost rocket; ghost deer; ghost cat’;

Ghostnoun

(attributive) Substitute.

‘ghost writer; ghost band; ghost singer’;

Ghostverb

To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

Ghostverb

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

Ghostverb

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

Ghostverb

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

Ghostverb

(GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

Ghostverb

To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

Ghostverb

To appear without warning; to move quickly and quietly; to slip.

Ghostverb

To kill.

Ghostverb

(slang) To break up with someone without warning or explanation; to perform an act of ghosting.

Ghostnoun

The spirit; the soul of man.

‘Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.’;

Ghostnoun

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

‘The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.’; ‘I thought that I had died in sleep,And was a blessed ghost.’;

Ghostnoun

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

‘Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.’;

Ghostnoun

A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

‘And he gave up the ghost full softly.’; ‘Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people’;

Ghostverb

To die; to expire.

Ghostverb

To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

Ghostnoun

a mental representation of some haunting experience;

‘he looked like he had seen a ghost’; ‘it aroused specters from his past’;

Ghostnoun

a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Ghostnoun

the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

Ghostnoun

a suggestion of some quality;

‘there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone’; ‘he detected a ghost of a smile on her face’;

Ghostverb

move like a ghost;

‘The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard’;

Ghostverb

haunt like a ghost; pursue;

‘Fear of illness haunts her’;

Ghostverb

write for someone else;

‘How many books have you ghostwritten so far?’;

Ghostnoun

an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image

‘a ghost ship’; ‘the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk’;

Ghostnoun

a slight trace or vestige of something

‘she gave the ghost of a smile’;

Ghostnoun

a faint secondary image caused by a fault in an optical system, duplicate signal transmission, etc.

Ghostverb

act as ghostwriter of (a work)

‘his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist’;

Ghostverb

glide smoothly and effortlessly

‘they ghosted up the river’;

Ghostverb

end a personal relationship with (someone) by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication

‘I didn't want to ghost her, so we ended up having ‘the talk’ and it was horrible’; ‘people who ghost are primarily focused on avoiding their own emotional discomfort’; ‘being ghosted is one of the toughest ways to be dumped’;

Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms.